page_title: French Guiana
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: French Guiana / Demographics / Religion
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vue générale de la Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur de Cayenne.
context_page_description: French Guiana is an overseas department and region of France on the northern Atlantic coast of South America in the Guianas. It borders Brazil to the east and south and Suriname to the west. French Guiana is the only territory of the mainland Americas to have full integration in a European country.
  With a land area of 83,534 km², French Guiana is the second-largest region of France and the largest outermost region within the European Union. It has a very low population density, with only 3.5 inhabitants per square kilometre. Half of its 290,691 inhabitants in 2020 lived in the metropolitan area of Cayenne, its capital. 98.9% of the land territory of French Guiana is covered by forests, a large part of which is primeval rainforest. The Guiana Amazonian Park, which is the largest national park in the European Union, covers 41% of French Guiana's territory.
  Since December 2015 both the region and the department have been ruled by a single assembly within the framework of a new territorial collectivity, the French Guiana Territorial Collectivity. This assembly, the French Guiana Assembly, has replaced the former regional council and departmental council, which were both disbanded.
context_section_description: The dominant religion of French Guiana is Roman Catholicism; the Maroons and some Amerindian peoples maintain their own religions. The Hmong people are also largely Catholic owing to the influence of missionaries who helped bring them to French Guiana. Guianan Catholics are part of the Diocese of Cayenne.
caption: Cayenne Cathedral. Most inhabitants of French Guiana are Catholic.
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